Archbishop prays while topless gay activists shout curses and douse him with water

Excuse me, I am offended. When people start acting like rabid animals and lose any sense of decency they paint a clear picture of themselves and the
merit of their cause takes a big PR hit. This free-for-all bothers me greatly and I'm sad to know that things are so messed up around the globe.

I think that Americans, such as you and I, should try to avoid thinking of Belgian politics as if they were American politics. The hate-speech laws in
Europe seem to have more teeth than what we know of in the U.S. This recently appointed Arch Bishop has himself been tried under Belgian hate speech
laws.

One of the peculiarities of Belgian politics is that a foreign appointed ( Vatican) Belgian person (Arch Bishop) is seen as a partner in Belgian
political decisions (akin to, say, an Oil Company executive invited to write energy policy for U.S. law)

So, to Belgians, he is not merely a Roman Catholic speaking to Roman Catholics, he is an unelected, foreign appointed, politician, speaking of Belgian
and European civil law.

What particularly caught my attention was that the venue was an International, multicultural university hosting a debate on blasphemy laws. Obviously,
he was arguing in favor since his opponent, Guy Haarscher, views blasphemy as 'a normal - and maybe cathartic - value in open societies. ' (quote
by Yvonne Sherwood, Biblical Blaspheming: Trials of the Sacred for a Secular Age page 65)

. . . the venue was an International, multicultural university hosting a debate on blasphemy laws. Obviously, he was arguing in favor .
. .

Thanks for pointing that out, and for discovering that part, to start with.
I engage in what some would consider, blasphemy, every day on this forum, in the religion section. Also, just a little while ago, on Facebook, I was
criticising Rick Warren for saying that the Christian and Muslim gods were the same person. I don't even think that the Christian and Jewish gods are
the same person.
I am afraid that at some point in the future, we will all have to be Rick Warren's if we want to be religious at all.
So, my point is, anyone on this forum should realize that it only even exists because of the US and its freedom of speech, which is constantly under
heavy attack.
btw: on another forum web site, I was being ridiculed by some members for saying there was a such thing as anti-blasphemy laws. Everyone had better
wake up to this right now.

FEMEN - is a new ideology of the women's sexual protest presented by extreme topless campaigns of direct action . FEMEN – is sextremism serving to
protect women's rights, democracy watchdogs attacking patriarchy, in all its forms: the dictatorship, the church, the sex industry.
The magic of the body get your interested, the courage of the act make you want to riot.
Come out, Go topless and Win!

My view is that there is a very real chance that these women are being exploited.

Some readers may be angry and offended thinking such thoughts as, "Look what they get away with!", but no, they aren't getting away with anything,
they do suffer the legal and physical consequences for their actions. The organizers and recruiters may not suffer consequences yet, but the recruited
definitely do; tear gas, police cuffs, verbal abuse, incarceration, criminal records, PTSD etc. A definite case for exploitation in my thinking and
feeling.

Now that that's addressed,

So, my point is, anyone on this forum should realize that it only even exists because of the US and its freedom of speech, which is constantly under
heavy attack.

Right, what we can or can't write about religious subjects would be severely narrowed down if the forum were hosted in another country. One person's
statement of faith is another person's blasphemy.

Examples:
A Christian may say, "Jesus is Lord", a Jew responds, "that's blasphemy, there's only one Lord, and it ain't Jesus!"

A Puritan may say, "The Papacy is anti-christ." A Roman Catholic would cry, "Blasphemy!"

In short, any one discussing religion would have to stay within very limited vocabulary or suffer the consequences. And that is not an open society.

My view is that there is a very real chance that these women are being exploited.

Right, it sounds too much like this thing that
happened in Russia, PussyRiot, or whatever I am allowed to say.
It looks like another sort of 'color revolution' to affect local politics for a globalist agenda, by way of the CIA.
Like get people upset enough to create a 'backlash', which in reality is something planned and ready to be carried out by operatives planted in the
government, but need 'public approval' to implement.

Right, it sounds too much like this thing that happened in Russia, PussyRiot, or whatever I am allowed to say.
It looks like another sort of 'color revolution' to affect local politics for a globalist agenda, by way of the CIA.

I can't see any indication that Pussy Riot had any clandestine funding. Do you have any supporting evidence?

FEMEN, on the other hand does seem to get much outside support.

FEMEN also receives donations from individuals[21][60][130] like Helmut Geier (also known as DJ under the alias DJ Hell),[67] German businesswoman
Beate Schober (who is currently residing in Ukraine),[131] the American-Jewish businessman Jed Sunden (founder of Ukrainian KP Media and former owner
of Kyiv Post newspaper)[1][132] and Ukrainian Canadians.[103] There is also speculation the group receives support from clandestine sources.[103]Financing

Now I wonder: FEMEN claims to be against all patriarchal religion. If the planned branch in Tel Aviv actually opens, will an action be called in order
to expose the brutal beatings of women who attempt to board buses while not meeting dress codes of ultra orthodox Jewish morality vigilantes? If
someone dies as a result, will it show up in any news outlet?

Edit to add:

While in Kharkiv I also met with Tatiana Isaieva, the founder and director of a new gender museum funded by the local city administration and the
Global Fund for Women. Although Isaieva was careful to distance her own work from Femen’s activities, she did mention Anna Hutsol as a fellow
participant in a leadership training seminar funded by the U.S. State Department several years agoAnthropology of East Europe Review 29(2) Fall 2011 page
216 underlining by pthena

I can't see any indication that Pussy Riot had any clandestine funding. Do you have any supporting evidence?

No, I don't because
I never looked into it much but I saw it all over, so it was given a lot of free publicity and a lot of famous people made statements of support for
it.

. . . will an action be called in order to expose the brutal beatings of women . . .

No, and since this thread has already been
moved into the religion forum, they (the zionist regime) are not going to risk exposing that they are not genetically superior to Arabs.

That the organization is based in the Ukraine may be taking advantage of an existing real gender inequality in that country, where it would be
relatively easy to get willing recruits for their soldiers so that the 'leadership' does not have to take the brunt of retaliation against the
organization's activities.

The page that you linked to starts out interestingly,

“Now when people in America think of Ukraine they will add Femen to their list of vodka,
snow, and the Orange Revolution,” my friend Lilya sighed in disappointment, . . .

So, my 'off the top of my head' reaction to this news story with the bishop is that there is someone directing the whole thing and taking advantage of
people with a legitimate complaint, and pushing them past the limits of public acceptability of behaviour, to cause an engineered reaction against
them in order to give 'street cred' to the bishop who just has to strike an 'innocent' pose.

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